# Checking Success/Failure with Vmware Ansible modules **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** vmware\ **Created:** [October 10, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/checking-success-failure-with-vmware-ansible-modules/25716 "2017-10-10T22:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Victor1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Victor1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Victor1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/checking-success-failure-with-vmware-ansible-modules/25716/1 "2017-10-10T22:37:51Z")
Hi , I have written few tests using ansible . basicall suspending a VM and then resuming again , taking snapshots etc… I need to check success or failure of these operations. I am registering a vraibklle to capture the output as below and writing the results in a local file. I am not sure about the correct way of capturing the success or failure through the registered variable. Thanks for your help! - name: Suspend the Single Machine local\_action: module: vmware\_guest hostname: ‘{{ hostname }}’ username: ‘{{ username }}’ password: ‘{{ password }}’ name: ‘{{ item }}’ esxi\_hostname: ‘{{ esxi\_hostname2 }}’ template: ‘’ is\_template: no datacenter: ‘{{ datacenter\_name }}’ state: ‘suspended’ force: yes validate\_certs: False with\_items: - ‘{{ guest\_list[0] }}’ register: **taskresult1** ignore\_errors: True - shell: echo “HPQC xxx Passed Suspend the Single VM” \>\> results.txt when: taskresult1|succeeded delegate\_to: localhost - shell: echo “HPQC xxx Failed Suspend the Single VM” \>\> results.txt when: taskresult1|failed delegate\_to: localhost taskresult1 has following content. TASK [VCENTER\_VM\_SuspendRes : debug] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* task path: /etc/ansible/roles/VCENTER\_VM\_SuspendRes/tasks/main.yml:54 ok: [xxxxxx] =\> { “msg”: { “changed”: false, “msg”: “All items completed”, “results”: [ { “\_ansible\_delegated\_vars”: { “ansible\_delegated\_host”: “localhost”, “ansible\_host”: “localhost” }, “\_ansible\_item\_result”: true, “\_ansible\_no\_log”: false, “\_ansible\_parsed”: true, “changed”: false, “failed”: false, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “annotation”: null, “cluster”: null, “customization”: {}, “customvalues”: , “datacenter”: “Datacenter”, “disk”: , “esxi\_hostname”: “xxxxx”, “folder”: “/vm”, “force”: true, “guest\_id”: null, “hardware”: {}, “hostname”: “xxxxx”, “is\_template”: false, “name”: “test1”, “name\_match”: “first”, “networks”: , “password”: “VALUE\_SPECIFIED\_IN\_NO\_LOG\_PARAMETER”, “resource\_pool”: null, “state”: “suspended”, “template”: “”, “template\_src”: “”, “username”: “administrator@vsphere.local”, “uuid”: null, “validate\_certs”: false, “wait\_for\_ip\_address”: false } }, “item”: “test1” } ] } } ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/checking-success-failure-with-vmware-ansible-modules/25716/2 "2017-10-11T08:14:43Z")
> Hi , > > I have written few tests using ansible . basicall suspending a VM and then > resuming again , taking snapshots etc.. I need to check success or failure > of these operations. I am registering a vraibklle to capture the output as > below and writing the results in a local file. > > I am not sure about the correct way of capturing the success or failure > through the registered variable. > > Thanks for your help! > >   - name: Suspend the Single Machine >         local\_action: >            module: vmware\_guest >            hostname: '{{ hostname }}' >            username: '{{ username }}' >            password: '{{ password }}' >            name: '{{ item }}' >            esxi\_hostname: '{{ esxi\_hostname2 }}' >            template: '' >            is\_template: no >            datacenter: '{{ datacenter\_name }}' >            state: 'suspended' >            force: yes >            validate\_certs: False >         with\_items: >            - '{{ guest\_list[0] }}' >         register: \*taskresult1\* >         ignore\_errors: True Since you are using with\_items, the actual result is in taskresult1['results'], and this is a list of arrays, one for each item in with\_items. > - shell: echo "HPQC xxx Passed Suspend the Single VM" \>\> results.txt >         when: taskresult1|succeeded >         delegate\_to: localhost >       - shell: echo "HPQC xxx Failed Suspend the Single VM" \>\> results.txt >         when: taskresult1|failed >         delegate\_to: localhost So to test the first task item number one you'll need to use taskresult1.result.0 and for the second item taskresult1.result. > TASK [VCENTER\_VM\_SuspendRes : debug] > \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > task path: /etc/ansible/roles/VCENTER\_VM\_SuspendRes/tasks/main.yml:54 > ok: [xxxxxx] =\> { >     "msg": { >         "changed": false, >         "msg": "All items completed", >         "results": [ Here you see the results and the [ that indicate a list. >             { >                 "\_ansible\_delegated\_vars": { >                     "ansible\_delegated\_host": "localhost", >                     "ansible\_host": "localhost" >                 }, >                 "\_ansible\_item\_result": true, >                 "\_ansible\_no\_log": false, >                 "\_ansible\_parsed": true, >                 "changed": false, >                 "failed": false, And each item has a failed, either true or false